Beautifully Carved, Mounted Folk Art Portrait of Man with Bow Tie and Fabulous Hair handmade inlaid wood frames 6" tall x 2 5/8"

6" tall x 2 5/8" in diameter and in very good condition

and think Magritte’s Treachery of Images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe) was about as perfect a means of addressing the nature of representation as there’s been

I believe this likely once formed a complete frame

The near-black side clearly once showed a message spelled out in pins

but I don’t care much--just quite an evocative thing

Beautifully Carved, Mounted Folk Art Portrait of Man with Bow Tie and Fabulous Hair handmade inlaid wood frames 6" tall x 2 5/8"All the better in person, the carving on this is really quite stunning, especially that hair!!! Politician? Banker? Business owner? Surely some sort of power broker, looking prosperous and ambitious and perhaps a little smug too in his jacket and bow tie and slightly doubled chin. A wonderful addition to a wall of portraits, I'd say, and quite a fun one to carry on an ongoing conversation with; I don't think he'd shy away from a lively debate!